#more times than I can count

[myshunodistrict]

I've been seeing a lot of people comparing Ciudad Enamorada to San Myshuno or worse, saying Ciudad Enamorada is an extension of San Myshuno/reused San Myshuno.

It's both incorrect and disrespectful. If you don't know what you're talking about it's probably better to not say anything at all.

I highly recommend reading the whole thread by softle0 on Twitter. The whole thing is important to read and understand the problem.

[rata-novus]

yall ever get so into playing a game you end up googling normal stuff with the name of the game tacked onto the end like its second nature???

bc i just searched for "edible cake batter gw2" and was perplexed for a good 5 seconds or so.....

[insanostyle1231]

huge fan of whenever a server has an nsfw channel and ill go "ok, ill keep that in mind for whenever i draw naked people" and then i never draw naked people anyway

[ofhouseccrrino]

// I have decided that I will wait two weeks before adding people back because many muns make their blogs on a spur of the moment and then forget about them after a short while. Two weeks is enough time to see whether somebody sticks around or not. 

[undeadorion-archive]

That doesn't go just for art. That goes for almost everything online. And it's not just making you feel awkward. If you advertise your vulnerabilities, it's like having an open wound in shark territory. You're making yourself a target. You end up with people insisting they're your absolute best friend while they slowly suck you dry in the worst way possible.

Being shamelessly confident in yourself might feel awkward at first, but it's the greatest defense against awful people who would take advantage of you.

ngl one of the most useful things i’ve internalized from doing art online is never tell people what to criticize. don’t preemptively apologize for things or point out where you think you fumbled, it’s just priming people to notice minor issues that might not actually matter and hit you where you’re sensitive and throw you off your game. don’t tell people your weak points. if it’s a genuine problem they’ll point it out

[chiangyorange]

the chain but on a scale of who says hooray yippee and wahoo

is this anything.

[madamemiz]

saw a post recently about the sun and moon fandom and how non-selfship content is rare, and how that's frustrating, and it struck me, like... how rare that is. genuinely in all my 20ish years in online spaces, i've never seen a fandom that not only welcomed selfship but actively encourages it, when usually the rule of thumb is that it's tolerated at best and despised at worst

so why is this fandom so selfship centric?

the answer is a combination of factors, of course, but I think it was mostly just a perfect storm of the right character with the right traits at the right time. many people between about 23 and 33 were and still are experiencing intense childhood nostalgia that's being perpetuated by online culture and various media, often through a distorted or slightly unsettled lense. the daycare attendant is fun! they're childish, but decidedly not children. they're not human, unattainable in reality, but plausible enough in the age of ai that they make you ponder. they make you long to nap and play and color and do all the whimsical things you wish you could take a week off from your dull job and do! but there's something... off about them. an element of danger that's intriguing. they're dangerous, but what if they aren't to you specifically? or, if they are, what if they overcame that, just for you? what if you were worth it?

people our age are lonely, and if not, often working through issues they didn't have time to contemplate in their teens and early 20s because they were still living throigh the issues. younger people too, of course, but it's especially rampant in the aforementioned age group. past college and college friends, too caught up in work to make new ones. if the dca really clicked with you as a character, it's kind of fun to imagine what it would be like to hang out with them. what if they were your friend? what if they were more?

which leads to my last point--cringe is dead and we stomped on its corpse

maybe it started with a few people drawing a y/n with the dca, and wow the art is cute! who's the cute jester character? ... is that a self-insert? huh. and then more people join in. is that allowed? yes! and the crowd cheers for it too! the right people drawing the right character dynamics at the right moment, drawing others like a moths to a strange robotic flame

ultimately, the fandom attracts so much selfship because that's the bedrock, the foundation the rest of the fandom built its home on. almost all of the common tropes and characterization have roots in selfship fic and art. the dca's popularity very much kicked off from that, and seeing other people using them as an outlet for their loneliness, friendship, romantic or sexual desires, or even just for creative character and plot setups that are only tangentially related to canon actively encouraged others to join in, in a way that could only happen while riding the funerary coattails of cringe culture

it's very much a lightning in a bottle fandom, the likes of which i doubt we'll see again for a while

[radioroxx]

crying and comfort images for the sake of drawing crying and comfort images. i wanted crying and comfort image. i will take requests

bonus: this

full imag

[gideonisms]

"don't walk alone at night as a woman" "don't live alone as a woman" "don't try to buy a car by yourself as a woman" damn it's almost like people just don't want women to do things

[beautyofattolia]

It's crazy how Suzanne Collins invented romance with Peeta and Katniss in Catching Fire.

[tomaturtles]

Happy Campus Apocalypse volume 1 16th anniversary here's something to celebrate

[nenoname]

thinking about stan "god i love cards and gambling" pines

[everwalldigan]

Ok but what if Cass my chronically online princess picks up some of the modern slang and makes it her mission to use it at the most inappropriate times (wether she’s aware she’s doing it or not is up to you)

Cass, complimenting a meal: whoever made this needs to get their ass ate

Bruce: *has a stroke on the spot*

Cass, looking at a unconscious beaten up Jason in the medbay: where’s the girl with the list

Cass, humming while tying up a cannibalistic cult: big back big back, big back big back

Villain: *monologuing about their motives and they awful life that lead them to villainy*

Cass: skill issue

Cass, nodding while drenched in blood after a fight: serving so much cunt

Steph: hell yeah you are!!

[black-rabbit-razumikhin]

i am not immune to the deadpool/wolverine brainrot

[the-way-astray]

hate it when people act like fitz talks about being cognates with sophie a ridiculous amount. i could probably count on one hand the amount of times he says something to the effect of "but we're cognates" in the entire series

[benevolenterrancy]

so I've never actually watched the tangled series and know nothing about its plot, but the song Ready As I'll Ever Be lives in my head rent free at all times